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Synonyms for warhead
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wawr-hed |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɔrˌhɛd |
Définition of warhead
Origin :- 1898, "explosive part of a torpedo," from war + head (n.). Later transferred to any missile (1944).
- As in nose cone : noun front heat shield
- Its irregularity weighed against its containing the warhead.
- Extract from : « Pushbutton War » by Joseph P. Martino
- Had the enemy camouflaged the warhead so that it looked like a section of the missile's skin?
- Extract from : « Pushbutton War » by Joseph P. Martino
- Moving the lever, he caused the cross hairs to center on the warhead.
- Extract from : « Pushbutton War » by Joseph P. Martino
- He decided that the most likely event was that the warhead was hidden by one of the other fragments.
- Extract from : « Pushbutton War » by Joseph P. Martino
- "Warhead due in less than four minutes," he called into his mike.
- Extract from : « First on the Moon » by Jeff Sutton
- Would he have had the courage to drive the satelloid into the warhead?
- Extract from : « First on the Moon » by Jeff Sutton
- "Going to be close but we'll make it," Crag said, thinking of the warhead.
- Extract from : « First on the Moon » by Jeff Sutton
- To a radar set on the ground near the target, each fragment was indistinguishable from the nose cone carrying the warhead.
- Extract from : « Pushbutton War » by Joseph P. Martino
- No ground-controlled intercept scheme had any hope of selecting the warhead from among that deceptive cloud and destroying it.
- Extract from : « Pushbutton War » by Joseph P. Martino
- The only remaining possibility, then, was that the warhead was being hidden from him by the jammer itself.
- Extract from : « Pushbutton War » by Joseph P. Martino
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